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The Accidental Life of Jessie Jefferson by Paige Toon

My fifteenth birthday
was the worst day of my life, and it's inconceivable to think that any
single day in my future will ever be as bad. My mum was killed in a
freak accident on her way to pick up my cake. Even when there was still
no sign of her after two hours later, and my friends started to arrive
at our house, it never occurred to me that she wouldn't be coming back.
That was six months ago. My mum died without telling me who my real dad
was. And for a while I hated her for it. I thought she's taken the
secret of my father's identity with her forever. But she didn't. Holy
hell, she didn't. Because three weeks ago I found out the truth. And I'm
still reeling from the shock of it. My dad is none other than Johnny
Jefferson, mega famous rock star and one-time serial womaniser. And now
I'm on my way to LA to meet him and his family.

My ThoughtsHaving
only recently discovered Paige Toon I managed to read her entire
backlist in a week early on in December and have been excitedly awaiting
her first YA offering since then.

Put simply I loved The
Accidental Life of Jessie Jefferson for several reasons. Firstly I
adored Jessie as a character. I loved her teenagerness especially
towards the start of the book and I loved seeing how she adapted to all
the changes to her world that occurred once she found out Johnny
Jefferson was her father. I just thought the way she was written as this
bolshy teen who was terrified underneath all that bluster was awesomely
well done because it made her feel real.

I also loved this book
because it gave me a chance to see more of Meg and Johnny from Johnny Be
Good and Baby Be Mine. I love that Paige's books allow to catch up with
characters from her previous books as they pop in and out of the story
either in a big way like in this book with Johnny and Meg but also via
the mentions of Joseph Strike.

The story itself follows Jessie as
she finds out about Johnny being her father and goes on to meet him and
find out more about the world that he lives in. I loved seeing how she
starts to slot into his world but also how it gave her more appreciation
of what she had left behind with her stepfather in England. I literally
cannot wait to find out more in her next book.